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by blang 8y ago
They have done this in Seattle for the first hill streetcar [1], with let's say limited success [2][3] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Hill_Streetcar#Vehicles [2] https://www.king5.com/arti
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by blang 8y ago
One way to decrease fear of the others is proximity and familiarity, eventually you stop being others. Huge disclaimer: This is probably easy for me to say, as I am about as "all american" looking as they come
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by blang 8y ago
I've heard this one a bunch, but it seems to be really hard to find the source. The closest I have found was that it was a study done bye Frédéric Brochet for his Phd in oenology (did not know that was a word until today) http:/
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by blang 8y ago
It gets pretty easy to lose your political compass when groups that you don't like start gaining momentum on a cause. In this case reason.com (free market will solve everything) is very opposed environmentalists (we need government to
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by blang 8y ago
I'm pretty sure the opposite is true for credit card companies. The wealthy tend to pay down the balance before interest is even charged, while the poor tend to carry balances forever paying mostly interest while getting hit with othe
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by blang 8y ago
They do have the brochures, but they are missing one of the important ideas (maybe just my opinion) "When in doubt, throw it out", meaning that economically and environmentally it is better to err on the side of throwing away some
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by blang 8y ago
I used to live in central New Jersey, where the people of Waste Management would send out quarterly fliers telling people "When in doubt throw it out"[0] I now live in Seattle, and when I tell people this campaign, they get extrem
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by blang 8y ago
Yup: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play_for_a_Billion
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by blang 8y ago
People rarely comply, unless they are tax lawyers that fear the IRS wants to put them up as a trophy: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/04/16/177384487/most...
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by blang 8y ago
NPR did a good piece about the non-profit mentioned in the article: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/08/07/5416096...
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by blang 8y ago
I believe QFC (part of Krogers) does this. At least i've seen signs for it, I've never used it though.
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by blang 8y ago
It's not so much that voters are voting down income tax as progressive income taxes are illegal in the state of washington[1]. Though Seattle has tried[2]. You are right though that in some cases the voters have voted down income tax
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by blang 8y ago
Isn't a company called SkyTran trying to do the same thing?
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by blang 8y ago
You could always turn on do not disturb and allow calls from your contacts.
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by blang 8y ago
I'm always shocked that when I pause my mail when I go on vacation that there is no verification and I can do it for free.
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by blang 8y ago
I think the devil's advocate argument here is: would deciding not the run trains on auto cause an increase of car riding which would lead to greater than the number of deaths generated by the aging automatic driving system?
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by blang 8y ago
Is this because the train is not grade separated?
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by blang 8y ago
Just in case anyone was curious (I was) $1500 in 1983 is $3758.34 in 2018
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by blang 8y ago
obligatory? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpkecYVRt_E
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by blang 8y ago
Yes, but I would put housing density above mass transit in efficacy.
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by blang 8y ago
I think that's how Ford used to make their keys by default, one key for the cabin and ignition and one key for the trunk, this is what my dad's 1988 ford taurus did and I remember it was pretty annoying.
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by blang 8y ago
I'm guessing because there is less availability for charging during the day when you are at work, rather than at night when you are home.
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by blang 8y ago
Car2Go does this, well sort of. In Seattle the company pays about $1300 [1] per car per year for parking, which includes skipping metered parking, which could come to a pretty large subsidy [1] https://www.seattletimes.com/
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by blang 8y ago
I was wondering aloud at work the other day if robocalls could actually spell the end of the phone number. It is extremely rare that I actually make a telephone call to talk to someone, it's been replaced with facetime and google hang
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by blang 9y ago
I think I understand now. Isn't that how things are already run in Washington DC?
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by blang 9y ago
Let me preface this with me declaring that what I know about the US penal system comes 90% from television. How is this different from parole or a halfway house?
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by blang 9y ago
I think the common complaint was it was too dark for school aged children waiting for the bus. I'm not saying this is a super valid complaint, it's just the common one.
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by blang 9y ago
From what I understand farmers hate DST more than anyone. They tend to wake up at dawn and shifting the time an hour gives them an hour less time until the rest of the area wakes.
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Is Amazon good for Seattle?(geekwire.com)
1 points by blang 9y ago|0 comments
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by blang 9y ago
It's times like these in which I am glad I do not have a strong sense of smell (and thus not a refined sense of taste).

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